I work to stay alive.
BETTE DAVISGetting old is not for sissies.
More Bette Davis Quotes
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Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
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Success only breeds a new goal
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If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
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I’ve always liked men better than women.
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If men found out how to give birth to children they’ll never propose again.
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As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
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What a fool I was to come to Hollywood where they only understand platinum blondes and where legs are more important than talent.
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Evil people you never forget them. And that’s the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
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I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.
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It’s true we don’t know what we’ve got until its gone, but we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
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I wanted to be the first to win three Oscars, but Miss Hepburn has done it. Actually it hasn’t been done. Miss Hepburn only won half an Oscar. If they’d given me half an Oscar I would have thrown it back in their faces. You see, I’m an Aries. I never lose.
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Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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You’ve got to know someone pretty well to hate them.
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Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
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It’s a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.
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In this business, until you’re known as a monster you’re not a star.
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
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There’s only one way to work — like hell.
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One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
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Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they’re phonies.
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If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
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